Glossary

Proprietary name for a method of load testing a pile in which load is applied to the pile through a pressure chamber by burning solid fuel. Unloading occurs by controlled venting of pressure. Calibrated to provide equivalent static load-deflection plot.

Usually two horizontal timbers placed on opposite sides of a row of piles and drawn together by bolts to pull the piles into line.

French: mouton à vapeur

German: Dampframmbär

Spanish: maza de vapor

Italian: battipalo, maglio a vapore

Portuguese: martelo a vapor

Dutch: stoomblok, stoomheiblok

See Box Lead.

French: acier

German: Stahl

Spanish: acero

Italian: acciaio

Portuguese: aço

Dutch: staal

A rolled-steel section with web and flanges nearly the same thickness. The width and depth are approximately equal. Also called H-Beam.

French: pieu en acier

German: Stahlpfahl

Spanish: pilote de acero

Italian: palo in acciaio

Portuguese: estaca de aço

Dutch: stalen paal

Pipe in any wall thickness or diameter; it may be driven closed end or open end. Also called Tube Pile

A cast-in-place concrete pile formed by installing successively larger sections of corrugated shell or thin-wall pile; ordinarily installed with a mandrel that bears on a connector between lengths. A cuneiform pile.

Plates welded between flanges of structural shapes to reinforce against concentrated loading, as for testing.

French: pièces de renforcement/raidisseurs